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kuberlog··on Mycroft – open source voice assistant
I worked on a project in 2016 that told me all I needed to know about the space. It was an online voice assistant and I couldn't find myself wanting to interact with it. Even though I spent a lot of time on the project, I scrapped it, because it was just lame. It looked kind of cool, but was lame.

I personally don't think there is enough cybernetica to control with voice. At some point there may be, but right now, the internet is just one giant consumption stream with a few searches and purchases now and then.

That digital daemon experience taught me that I care more about physical intelligence than verbal intelligence when it comes to my technology. I'm verbally intelligent myself, I don't need an AI who can't even speak correctly, let alone understand me, be my verbal interface to the world.

kuberlog··on “[Twitter] is doing 1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline”
Netflix has 1000 Uber has 4000

Why can't twitter have 1000?

kuberlog··on “[Twitter] is doing 1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline”
No, he was CTO of a 3 person startup. He was the ONLY one that knew how to code for a while. He did it pretty obsessively and slept next to his computer.
kuberlog··on [dead]
Here is me working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlEsYO5YoU&t=420s

Here is the code: https://github.com/kuberlog/holon/blob/master/lisp/algorithm...

Here is the test run: https://youtu.be/suO0qxOSIdI

kuberlog··on [dead]
This is a robot neck design I made early in my career. I still to this day, use the fundamental concepts I learned from doing this project.
kuberlog··on Rome will be written in Rust
There is a big difference between writing in Go vs Rust. Any intermediate/advanced webdev will feel competent in Go in a matter of days. This is definitely not true with rust.
kuberlog··on Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka
> Clojure is a recurring gravitational pull for me.

You're in love

kuberlog··on Article claims hand rolled C code can perform dot product faster than Numpy
Ya. The article seems plausible, but NumPy uses Blas/Lapack which can do parallel computation, so thats what is confusing about it to me.
kuberlog··on Article claims hand rolled C code can perform dot product faster than Numpy
Same. Which is why this confuses me.